Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-12
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means property or goods. A "DoeuelstcT,
he Says s The attorney or other person VINO
finally possesses the 'boedel."
FORTY YEARS AGO Levi Knaus, then a
young man. was committed to the Reading
aim shouse He is said to have made vow
never to speak again, ami apparently ne mas
kept it, for he has remained there all these
years and no one has ever heard MIN speak
He hears well.
A MANUFACTURER OF CHEESE IN Prussia
was endeavorlng to improve his product, ana,
to this end, mixed the fresh cheese with about
per cent. of mashed potatoes. The ripe
cheese, however, looked suspicious; upon
analysis the admixture was discovered. and
the author of the new idea fined Sl2.
JOHN GOOD is an inventor who has am assed
fortune In very shortltlme. A dozen years
ago he worked IN big Brooklyn coroage fac
tory for SO so a day. Certain improvements
that he made in the manufacture of cordage
met with great favor in the trade, and the
rope makers of America and England are
now paying him $4,000 year in royalties.
THE editor of theatrical paper has asked
number of English actors to say, what Is
the most striking incident in your. profess
sional experienced" THE most striking in
cident that l can remember" writes Mr..
Irving, was when the 'slote' in Faust struck
me on the head instead OF carrying me up
into the flies above"
THE four-year-old son of Adrian Townsend
of Green Island, n. Y, wandered down to
the railroad station and was tossed aboard an
outgoing tram by traveller who heard
mother asking, hWhere did my boy gop' The
little chap was afterward found by his dis
tracted parents in Albany, whittier he had
been carried by the train.
NEWSPAPER MEN In Germany have to be
very careful about punctuation. The Hofer
Tageblatt short time ago said that deco
ration had been conferred upon Count Won
Hostein. BY an oversight an exclamation
point instead of period appeared at the end
of the sentence; and for this the authorities
seized the whole issue and instituted suit
against the editor for atrocious libel.
TIE Jap aud the Chinaman are close neigh
bors at home, but when they get to Washing
ton they are leagues apart. The Japs wear
the North American claw-hammer and place
American refreshments on their legation
table, While the Chinese stick to their native
costumes and oriental surroundings. AS a
matter of fact, they brought along a small
section of the Chinese wall in their luggage.
A A-YEAR-oLD. NEGRO GIRL, attempting to
| cross the Wabash railroad tracks at La Gro
! Ind, was struck by the hind car of freight
| train that was backing from switch. Four
| teen cars passed over her body, and when the
| engine reached the spot she was scooped up
| into the ash-pan The engineer stopped his
| engine and rescued the girl. She was entire
| ly unlniured, but awfully scared.
THE bottomless pit is not a mere figure of
speech now IN the Sandwich Islands. Prof
Alexander declares that he has sounded the
| extinct crater near the leper settlement at
| at MOOkai, and a line 500 feet long re-
manned taut and failed to reach the bottom
| The thorough exploration of this crater would
| probably result in some valuable additions to
| our knowledge of volcanic action.
MRS. CHANFRAU. the well-known actress,
has been defeated in the suit brought against
bar q Ro1t If Ii firm
for the sum of 1922 IA, the amount due,
| with interest and costs added, for printing
| furnished the late Frank Chanfrau, her hus-
| band. The def nse was that Mr.. and Mrs
| Chanfrau played under Clifton w. Tayleure's
| management, and that ne was responsible.
IT has been fourteen years since peculiar
and constant bubbling was first noticed in
! pool of water near Kilmastcr. Mich, and
the bubble was supposed TO be caused by a
| gushing spring until the other day, when
| }. H. Killmaster experimental with lighted
| match. and found iV to be made by a steady
volume of natural gas, which was finding
| vent through the little pond. A well will be
| sunk at once.
SENATOR BECK is requested by the Cincin-
natl Enquirer TO state how many Senators
are drawing pay from railroad corporations.
| Possibly the Senator does not know: but we
| should be glad if he would make public all
| The information he has on that point in ex-
change for statement from the Enquirer
|
| elecung United States Senators by the money
| of petroleum monopoly.
SPEAKING of the probability of there being
| two separate delegations to the next National
Republican Convention from the State of New
| York, old Gen. Simon Cameron SAID In \ ew
York few days ago: THAT would be a curl
| Gus occurrence. indeed. But IL is not unpre-
| ceden Ell in this country. We had just such a
struggle as that in Pennsylvania in Gen.
| JScksOn's time. So, you see, if this takes
place 1t will only be history repeating ITSELF
Not long ago widow and wldower, near
Indiana, Pa. consoled each other by marry
ing, and a few weeks afterward they drove
to town. While the husband was doing some
| business the wife stepped around To the un e
! ertakers to pay for his services at her late
| husbands funeral. The bill had scarcely
| been rece1pted when the husband put in an
| appearance and proceeded 10 pay the under
taker for services at his late wifcs funeral,
II is said they were mutually surprised.
THERE is perhaps no bolder poker player in
all New ork than the eloquent inidel, and
whether he holds four cunning little aces or
| is going it boldly on a boD-tail flush his face
is always radiant with a smile that. like Bre
| Harte's Chinaman, is childlike and bland
By chance Ingersrli met q half dozen fellow :
| the other nignt-Nat Good win, Andrew J
| Dam and John b. Schonel being of the num-
| Der. 1t was. the Anniversary of Robert Burns
| birth, and, with his usual logic, Ingersoll in
| sisted that the only and original way to cele-
| braIe the scotch poets memory was by
| playing a mild little game OF draw. The re =
| suit was that two of tne Coioneps opponents
| have sworn Off from poker for year. and the
| others declare that they will never again
| play poker on poets birthday.
THE New York Mail and Express has the
following in its Washington gossip; las for
Congressional temperance, too much cannot
be SAID in praise of the improvement
there. Twenty years ago Congress
was dissipated body There IS
no denying 1t. Now Congress is
sober and getting soberer. The men who are
known TO drink hard and fast. although some
Of them are among the ablest men IN the
body, are the rel,"s OF the old regimes when
1t was thought rather good joke for gem
tleman TO be half-seas over. The new men
who are coming in , and making headway in
the House particularly, are temperate to
abstemiousness. 1t is only necessary to
glance at the records of quarrels I'm Con
gre.s and to observe how Wonderfully they
have diminished. TO see where the reform has
worked. Formerly a dozen or so fgh g at
the capitol were expected during the session,
and regularly occurred on schedule time
The last encounter that could be called a
fight, and that only went as far as the slrip-
ping of the balligerents coats. happened in
the winter of1s>s~-suu.stween Cen. Weaver
the Greenback candfr,--s~ and Mr.. sparks
! Such a thing now would be Utmost impossible.
| If aman Is seen drunk on the floor of the
! House. which is happily very seldom, his
| friends hustle him INTO the cloak rooms and
| every precaution is taken to cover the matter
mn as IL now cOnaiderad 81 disurapa met aa "A